From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Preview of a Special IMS Lecture
Ashwin Pananjady is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Martin Wainwright and Thomas Courtade. His research interests are broadly in statistics, optimization and information theory. Specific topics of …
Preview of a Special IMS Lecture
Didong Li is a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University, supervised by David B. Dunson and Sayan Mukherjee. His research focuses on bridging between statistics and differential geometry to develop fundamentally new algorithms, statistical methods and theory. In particular, …
To promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even-
numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that have had impact on practice and whose PhD degree is at least 25 years old.
The…
We pose a classic problem, variously known as the taxicab problem or the German tank problem (named after its historical application, by Allied forces in World War II, to the estimation of the monthly rate of German tank production from very few data).
We have a finite population $\mathcal{X}$ with…
Contributing Editor Anirban DasGupta writes on the previous problem, which was about phase transitions:
If the common probability that each observer tells the truth on any given instance is $p$, and if there are $m$ such observers, and if there are $n$ options (colors) to choose from, then by…